foodscape

foodscape

English

Etymology

food +‎ -scape

Noun

foodscape (plural foodscapes)

1. A metaphorical landscape of foods and their production methods and cultural associations.
   • 2002, Warren James Belasco, ‎Philip Scranton, Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (page 215)

     Ethnic food, to this extent, must be regarded as a foodscape. A notion of foodscape reveals how movements of ethnic food are intertwined with the different movements of ethnic groups, financial capital, and business […]

   • 2010, Pauline Adema, Garlic Capital of the World, page 4:

     Gilroy is a foodscape because its identity as a place is marketed to and often recalled among a diverse public by its association with a particular food item.

   • 2014, Josee Johnston, ‎Shyon Baumann, Foodies: Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape (page 3)

     We understand the foodscape as a dynamic social construction that relates food to places, people, meanings, and material processes.